Chinese medicine understands that many factors in our lives can impact upon the right working of our systems and organs:

• lifestyle choices, overwork, over lifting
• accidents and injuries
• shocks and traumas (physical and emotional)
• inherited factors
• long term emotional and mental problems (eg. stress, anxiety, over worry, depression)

These are some of the factors that can cause disease and create short-term acute symptoms.

Acupuncture can therefore treat a wide variety of symptoms you are experiencing, whether it’s at a physical level, a mind level or an emotional level.

Sara will take a detailed case history, questioning your life/body stresses past and present and examining how your body’s systems are currently working. This will take one hour.

Initially most cases require weekly treatment (1 hour) for 4-6 weeks to really encourage the body’s healing and rebalancing. Treatment is painless and often a deep feeling of relaxation follows each session.

Sara also uses Shiatsu and soft tissue massage within her treatments if appropriate. Shiatsu is a Japanese massage using Chinese medicine theory and is applied as pressure to certain points and areas. She has found it to be an invaluable tool in treating certain problems like frozen shoulders (capsulitis), shoulder and neck problems and pain.

More general information about Acupuncture can be found at:

https://www.acupuncture.org.uk/